I'm loving The Blacklist. The whole thing is very slick and the Raymond Reddington character is fantastic.

Person of Interest is really good, too, glad I stuck through the first half of the first season. However, I'm watching it on Channel Five in the UK, so I'm a season behind, can I ask for spoiler hidey things?

@Cat: I have to agree that moment seemed to me like it was more open to interpretation than a cheap 'Ooh, look the following incident is MORE meaningful'.THIS weeks episode...just...I mean no titles? A genre action show with talking heads scenes and the best use of a Nine Inch Nails-tinged soundtrack since Season 1's "No Good Deed"? I tried to be good and wait for Channel 5 but after surpassing them with Season 2 I simply could not wait.

I've said from the pilot, when everybody was making obvious Batman-parallel comments, that the stronger comparison is to The Shadow: a former killer in New York (now with an extensive network of allies taken from those he's saved) with access to a fortune and the power to Cloud Men's Minds (or rather to out-think them). This week, Root plugged herself in to New York's network and did this...

I totally agree with you on 'The Shadow' side of things, they're pretty clear that Reece has done some horrible, horrible things.Michael Emerson has himself described the show in interviews (non-derogatorily I stress) as 'comic book tv' and the show really seems to me to have captured an essential comic book-ness without compromising to TV Genre norms that many comic book adapted for TV (& long-form TV series in general) fall into.